Ircd.js: A Node.js IRC Daemon

Bug report: nicks and channels are supposed to be compared case-insensitively (and there's some oddities due to IRC's Scandinavian origin, like '{' is uppercase '[').

Re: Ircd.js: A Node.js IRC Daemon

#5

Post by RicRoberts » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 11:03 AM UTC

As Alex said to me the other day "Node.js is not powered by Candyfloss and rainbows".

Re: Ircd.js: A Node.js IRC Daemon

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Post by woogley » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 11:20 AM UTC

Nice job and congratulations on your progress.

Now, what would be really interesting is if you were to add a WebSocket layer into the server, so one could write a browser-based client that would directly interface with the IRC server without having to proxy like mibbit does.

Re: Ircd.js: A Node.js IRC Daemon

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Post by alexyoung » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 12:29 PM UTC

woogley wrote: post #6

Nice job and congratulations on your progress. Now, what would be really interesting is if you were to add a WebSocket layer into the server, so one could write a browser-based client that would directly interface with the IRC server without having to proxy like mibbit does.

Yeah, I actually thought about that. I'm not sure if I want to bundle that into the main server.

I made a web-based chat system maybe a year ago called JsChat, so I might use some of the stuff I learned there and do a nice Socket.IO thing.

Re: Ircd.js: A Node.js IRC Daemon

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Post by alexyoung » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 12:30 PM UTC

caf wrote: post #4

Bug report: nicks and channels are supposed to be compared case-insensitively (and there's some oddities due to IRC's Scandinavian origin, like '{' is uppercase '[').

Thanks, I appreciate that. I was a bit confused about it.

Re: Ircd.js: A Node.js IRC Daemon

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Post by alexyoung » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 12:31 PM UTC

RicRoberts wrote: post #5

As Alex said to me the other day "Node.js is not powered by Candyfloss and rainbows".

I am though, so it'll be OK

Re: Ircd.js: A Node.js IRC Daemon

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Post by mlLK » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 2:19 PM UTC

OT but Anyone actively pumping out stuff for node.js? I just installed it on my slice last week; it took me about an 30-40 minutes to get through the README :| (mostly due to some missing dependencies), flipped through man, and was like wtf I'm doing. . .point being, it seemed like it'd take some serious investment to, first, figure what you're doing, and, second, to produce something interesting.

Coolest application I've seen come out of node.js is http://mrdoob.com/125/Multiuser_Sketchpad_HTML5. I'd be interested in what others are doing in it; let alone, how they got about doing they wanted to do in it.